Myanmar Institute of Information Technology

About: Myanmar Institute of Information Technology is a education organization based out in Mandalay, Myanmar. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Data deduplication & Support vector machine. The organization has 47 authors who have published 75 publications receiving 210 citations.

Advances in Smart Environment Monitoring Systems Using IoT and Sensors

Abstract: Air quality, water pollution, and radiation pollution are major factors that pose genuine challenges in the environment. Suitable monitoring is necessary so that the world can achieve sustainable growth, by maintaining a healthy society. In recent years, the environment monitoring has turned into a smart environment monitoring (SEM) system, with the advances in the internet of things (IoT) and the development of modern sensors. Under this scenario, the present manuscript aims to accomplish a critical review of noteworthy contributions and research studies on SEM, that involve monitoring of air quality, water quality, radiation pollution, and agriculture systems. The review is divided on the basis of the purposes where SEM methods are applied, and then each purpose is further analyzed in terms of the sensors used, machine learning techniques involved, and classification methods used. The detailed analysis follows the extensive review which has suggested major recommendations and impacts of SEM research on the basis of discussion results and research trends analyzed. The authors have critically studied how the advances in sensor technology, IoT and machine learning methods make environment monitoring a truly smart monitoring system. Finally, the framework of robust methods of machine learning; denoising methods and development of suitable standards for wireless sensor networks (WSNs), has been suggested.

Adaptive Tunable Q Wavelet Transform-Based Emotion Identification

Abstract: Emotion is a neuronic transient that drives a person to a certain action. Emotion recognition from electroencephalogram (EEG) signals plays a vital role in the development of a brain–computer interface (BCI). Extracting the important information from raw EEG signals is difficult due to its nonstationary nature. Fixing a factual predefined basis function for efficient decomposition using a tunable $Q$ wavelet transform is an arduous task. In this article, an adaptive tunable $Q$ wavelet transform is proposed for the automatic selection of tuning parameters. Optimum tuning parameters are obtained using gray wolf optimization (GWO). Tuning parameters obtained by GWO are used to decompose the EEG signals into subbands (SBs). The set of time-domain features elicited from the SBs are used as an input to multiclass least-squares support vector machine. Classification accuracy of four basic emotions, namely, happy, fear, sad, and relax, is tested and compared with existing methods. An accuracy of 95.70% is achieved with a radial basis function kernel that is about 5% more than the existing methods using the same data set. This article proposes the development of a nonparameterized decomposition method for efficient decomposition of EEG signals. This method can be used with machine learning algorithms to take a step forward in the development of BCI systems.

An Empirical Analysis of Machine Learning Algorithms for Crime Prediction Using Stacked Generalization: An Ensemble Approach

Abstract: Ensemble learning method is a collaborative decision-making mechanism that implements to aggregate the predictions of learned classifiers in order to produce new instances. Early analysis has shown that the ensemble classifiers are more reliable than any single part classifier, both empirically and logically. While several ensemble methods are presented, it is still not an easy task to find an appropriate configuration for a particular dataset. Several prediction-based theories have been proposed to handle machine learning crime prediction problem in India. It becomes a challenging problem to identify the dynamic nature of crimes. Crime prediction is an attempt to reduce crime rate and deter criminal activities. This work proposes an efficient authentic method called assemble-stacking based crime prediction method (SBCPM) based on SVM algorithms for identifying the appropriate predictions of crime by implementing learning-based methods, using MATLAB. The SVM algorithm is applied to achieve domain-specific configurations compared with another machine learning model J48, SMO Naive byes bagging and, the Random Forest. The result implies that a model of a performer does not generally work well. In certain cases, the ensemble model outperforms the others with the highest coefficient of correlation, which has the lowest average and absolute errors. The proposed method achieved 99.5% classification accuracy on the testing data. The model is found to produce more predictive effect than the previous researches taken as baselines, focusing solely on crime dataset based on violence. The results also proved that any empirical data on crime, is compatible with criminological theories. The proposed approach also found to be useful for predicting possible crime predictions. And suggest that the prediction accuracy of the stacking ensemble model is higher than that of the individual classifier.

Multi- class classification of breast cancer abnormalities using Deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN).

Abstract: The real cause of breast cancer is very challenging to determine and therefore early detection of the disease is necessary for reducing the death rate due to risks of breast cancer. Early detection of cancer boosts increasing the survival chance up to 8%. Primarily, breast images emanating from mammograms, X-Rays or MRI are analyzed by radiologists to detect abnormalities. However, even experienced radiologists face problems in identifying features like micro-calcifications, lumps and masses, leading to high false positive and high false negative. Recent advancement in image processing and deep learning create some hopes in devising more enhanced applications that can be used for the early detection of breast cancer. In this work, we have developed a Deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to segment and classify the various types of breast abnormalities, such as calcifications, masses, asymmetry and carcinomas, unlike existing research work, which mainly classified the cancer into benign and malignant, leading to improved disease management. Firstly, a transfer learning was carried out on our dataset using the pre-trained model ResNet50. Along similar lines, we have developed an enhanced deep learning model, in which learning rate is considered as one of the most important attributes while training the neural network. The learning rate is set adaptively in our proposed model based on changes in error curves during the learning process involved. The proposed deep learning model has achieved a performance of 88% in the classification of these four types of breast cancer abnormalities such as, masses, calcifications, carcinomas and asymmetry mammograms.

A New Mask R-CNN-Based Method for Improved Landslide Detection

Abstract: This article presents a novel method of landslide detection by exploiting the Mask R-CNN capability of identifying an object layout by using a pixel-based segmentation, along with transfer learning used to train the proposed model. A data set of 160 elements is created containing landslide and nonlandslide images. The proposed method consists of three steps: augmenting training image samples to increase the volume of the training data; fine-tuning with limited image samples; and performance evaluation of the algorithm in terms of precision, recall, and F1 measure, on the considered landslide images, by adopting ResNet-50 and 101 as backbone models. The experimental results are quite encouraging as the proposed method achieves precision equals to 1.00, recall 0.93, and F1 measure 0.97, when ResNet-101 is used as backbone model, and with a low number of landslide photographs used as training samples. The proposed algorithm can be potentially useful for land-use planners and policymakers of hilly areas where intermittent slope deformations necessitate landslide detection as a prerequisite before planning.